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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. Luckily Eric Ries was spending a few days in New York, so we sat down in the middle of Times Square and hashed this out.

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6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011

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New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has been trying very hard to raise New York City’s profile in the tech scene. That same month, prestigious startup accelerator TechStars announced its first New York City class. RSS Feed 563,341+ Subscribers. NYC Rises In the Tech Scene. Flag this comment.

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Finding The High Converting PPC Keywords That Are Right Under Your Nose

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For example, a 24 hour call center in New York that does brisk business from California around 7pm Pacific would be poorly served by a day-parting schedule that is set to lower bids at 10pm Eastern. 7pm Eastern is the highest spike for New York (1900 hours), and 7pm Pacific is the highest spike for California.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. It would be the company where I actually earned the title. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Not surprisingly, San Francisco was the top startup region, with New York City in second place and Boston in third. With more than 50 million monthly pageviews and 4 million followers across social media, Mashable has one of the most engaged online news communities.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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That company, which now has a client list of more than 200 companies and additional offices in the Philippines and New York, takes on the startup projects that Kayweb Angels selects. The shortage of startup technical talent, especially in New York City, has been well-documented. Kayserian believes they will.

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

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She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in.